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February 2014

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February 28
- Sea Sapphire: The Most Beautiful Animal You’ve Never Seen (Op-Ed)
- The Challenge of the Modern Scientist is to Avoid Career Suicide (Op-Ed)
- Next-Gen Neural Prosthetics Require a New Materials Approach
February 27
- We've Delivered our Citizen Kane, Now Give Gaming an Oscars Ceremony (Op-Ed)
- Personality Differences: Trolls and Cyberstalkers Aren't The Same (Op-Ed)
February 26
- There May Be Plant DNA Floating in your Blood (But That's OK) (Op-Ed)
- Health Check: How High Heels Harm and How to Make it Better (Op-Ed)
- Tired of Blizzard Bloat? Reversing Winter Weight Gain (Op-Ed)
- Water Security in an Unpredictable World (Op-Ed)
- As Milkweed Disappears, Monarchs are Fading Away (Op-Ed)
February 25
- The Myths of Charles Krauthammer: The Drinking Game (Op-Ed)
- At Sundance, Social Entrepreneurs Explore the Power of Story (Op-Ed)
- It's 3 a.m., Is that a Parasitic Worm in Your Cheek? (Op-Ed)
- 200-year-old Text Sheds Light on Uganda's Homophobic Bill (Op-Ed)
- An End in Sight in the Long Search for Gravity Waves (Op-Ed)
- At Mars, Is the Doctor In? (Video)
February 22
- A Quarter of Americans Think the Sun Orbits the Earth ... Sigh (Op-Ed)
- The Amount of Hidden Sugar in Your Diet Might Shock You (Op-Ed)
- New Action Plan to Save Madagascar's At-Risk Lemurs (Op-Ed)
February 21
- With Simple, Homemade Telescopes, You Can Explore the Stars (Op-Ed)
- Rest Assured, IVF Babies Grow into Healthy Adults (Op-Ed)
- Can Bikeshare Systems Ever Stand on Their Own Two Wheels? (Op-Ed)
February 20
- Canal Carved Through Nicaragua Will Destroy Rainforests, Communities and Wildlife (Op-Ed)
- Extreme Abuse of Calves Leads to Immediate Shuttering of N.J. Slaughterhouse (Op-Ed)
- Helpful Meds Can Become Harmful As You Grow Older (Op-Ed)
- Why a Recent Mammography Study is Deeply Flawed (Op-Ed)
February 19
- As Olympics Inspires Your 'Inner Athlete', Beware Common Injuries (Op-Ed)
- After 400 Years, Mathematicians Find a New Class of Solid Shapes
- Lutz or Flutz? The Tricky Physics of Figure Skating
- Protect and Serve — Including the Animals (Op-Ed)
- 'Feeling' Beyond the Limitations of a Space Suit (Video)
February 18
- Cold Winters, High Bills, and a Need for Energy Efficiency (Op-Ed)
- As Prisoners Learn of Animals' Compassion, They Connect (Op-Ed)
- Minority Languages Fight for Survival in the Digital Age (Op-Ed)
- Tomatoes Watered by the Sea: Sprouting a New Way of Farming (Op-Ed)
February 17
- That 'Healthy' Athlete May be at Risk for Female Triad Syndrome (Video)
- Regret This Year Could Spur Romance Next Year (Op-Ed)
February 15
- The Lure of Heroin: Painfully Addictive and Difficult to Quit (Op-Ed)
- Prostate's Early Growth May Reveal Cures for Later Illnesses (Op-Ed)
- A Conservative's Middle-Ground Solution for Climate Change (Video)
- In Appalachia, Even Miners Want to Leave Coal Behind (Video)
- Flappy Bird Obsession is Not Necessarily an Addiction (Op-Ed)
- Fussy Children Won't Eat Their Greens? They Probably Got That From Your Genes
February 14
- The 'Marius Effect'? First Do No Harm, as Another Giraffe Faces Euthanasia (Op-Ed)
- Killer Robot Drones are Like Drugs: Regulate, but Resist the Urge to Ban Them (Op-Ed)
- WTF Weather? Wild Meteorology Words Go Mainstream (Op-Ed)
- Hello Fish Face – A Fossil Fish Reveals the Origins of the Face
February 13
- Extracting Hydrogen for Fuel on Mars (Video)
- What to Expect From Dyson's New Robotics Lab
- Health Check: Is It Safe to Cut Mold Off Food?
February 12
- Why a Climate Scientist's Libel Case Matters (Op-Ed)
- We Will Need Monuments Men For As Long As Ancient Sites Remain Battlefields (Op-Ed)
- Explainer: What is a Virus?
- Cosmic Creativity: A NASA Resident Artist's View of Space
- The Benefits of Digging in the Dirt (Op-Ed)
February 11
- Want to Rekindle Passion? Go on a Double Date (Op-Ed)
- How to Prevent a Broken Heart (Op-Ed)
- Beatlemania Hit 50 Years Ago but Why Did It Drive Girls So Mad?
- Three Persistent Myths About Heroin Use and Overdose Deaths (Op-Ed)
February 8
- A Coal Baron Digs a Deeper Hole (Op-Ed)
- How Do You Tackle a Problem Close to Your Heart? (Op-Ed)
- Why Would Royal Dutch Shell Abandon the Arctic? (Video)
- A Chocolate a Day? (Op-Ed)
- Dogs in Sochi, Swans in New York: Culling Must End (Op-Ed)
- The Little-Known Science That Improved Everything Around Us (Op-Ed)
- Smiley Like You Mean It: How Emoticons Get in Your Head (Op-Ed)
February 7
- Sochi Mass Killing Street Dogs in Olympics 'Cleansing' (Op-Ed)
- Is It the End for the Monarch's Cross-Continent Migration? (Op-Ed)
- Drilling Surprise Opens Door to Volcano-Powered Electricity
- Cooperation and Conflict in Sex, Reproduction and Family Life (Op-Ed)
February 6
- How Can India Defeat its Debilitating Smog? (Op-Ed)
- Ocean Debris Leads the Way for Castaway Fisherman (Op-Ed)
- Brain-Training Apps Just Make You Better at Playing Games (Op-Ed)
- Organic Farming Benefits Go Beyond the Food, Into the Field (Op-Ed)
- After Surviving Breast Cancer, Yoga May Be Recovery Key (Op-Ed)
February 5
- Dead or Alive, The Yutu Rover Says Much About How We Relate to Robots (Op-Ed)
- Mannahatta 2409: Simulating the City Four Centuries in the Future (Op-Ed)
February 4
- The Next Pandemic Could Be Downloaded From The Internet (Op-Ed)
- Meet Phronima, The Barrel-Riding Parasite That Inspired The Movie Alien (Op-Ed)
February 1
- When Wildlife TV Programs Hurt the Wildlife (Op-Ed)